30 October 1990: Lockheed test pilot Tom Morgenfeld completes the first flight of the number two YF-22 prototype in a flight from Palmdale to Edwards. This aircraft, called PAV-2, is powered by two Pratt & Whitney YF119-PW-100 turbofan engines.

30 October 1990: Lockheed test pilot Tom Morgenfeld completes the first flight of the number two YF-22 prototype in a flight from Palmdale to Edwards. This aircraft, called PAV-2, is powered by two Pratt & Whitney YF119-PW-100 turbofan engines.

28 November 1990: General Dynamics test pilot Jon Beesley, flying PAV-2, fires an AIM-9 Sidewinder over the range at the Naval Weapons Center at China Lake, California. This is the first live missile firing in the entire ATF program.

17 December 1990: YF-22 high angle-of-attack testing is completed on the eighty-seventh anniversary of the Wright Brothers’ first flight. The YF-22 attains an unprecedented sixty-degree angle-of-attack attitude and remains in full control.